[Vision2020] Scientific Consensus: Global Warming: Skepticism &Replicatability

[Tom Hansen]

Repeat after me, Paul -
 
"An ounce of prevention . . . 
 
"[Your Response Here]"
 
" . . . is worth a pound of cure."
 
"[Your Response Here]"
 
Very good.
 
Next Week:  "The Republican Party and Family Values"
 
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:20:58 -0700> From: godshatter at yahoo.com> To: starbliss at gmail.com> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com; privatejf32 at hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Scientific Consensus: Global Warming: Skepticism &Replicatability> > This is what I don't get. If the problem is as bad as they are saying, > which from what I can gather means that I will die of heat prostration > or drowning sometime before my natural lifespan would normally arrive, > then why are we talking about carbon pricing, low-carbon technologies, > and curbing deforestation? If it's that bad, outlaw coal power plants > tomorrow. Hell, give those companies that own them free money to > replace them with the power plant of their choice that uses > hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, nuclear, or whatever other kind > of greener power plants there are available. Mandate a total ban on the > internal combustion engine starting ten years from now. Make it illegal > to buy a new one, and illegal to import one. Sign the damned Kyoto > protocol and tell the non-complying countries that we'll be nuking their > worst polluting plants in 20 years, if they don't dismantle them first. > One a day, with the schedule posted on the Internet. As an added bonus, > the particulates sent into the upper atmosphere will help cool our > planet down.> > Or could it be that it's not that bad - but there is a lot of money in > crowing about it? We've been over this ground before, but our biosphere > is a complicated set of interacting variables that I don't think we can > model that precisely. However, I would be happy to have our government > take every penny that we plan on throwing at Iraq next year and throw it > at electric car research instead. If nothing else, it will make the > impact of the Middle East on our country decrease instead of the steady > increase we've seen. Saving our lives later would just be a bonus.> > Paul
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